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As you know, Anthony Burns was a real person whose trial was famous throughout the country. Click on the following links to view primary documents about the trial, the Fugitive Slave Law and other topics.
Once you get to the Library of Congresss, you’ll need to click on American Memory, then click on African American History.  For a portrait on Anthony Burns, type in Anthony Burns image.  There are some actual slave narrative audio files and many other fascinating documents.  Have fun.

We enjoyed the class discussions about this “anniversary.” Many of you had more to say than we had time for so here are some links for your interest. Click here for more information.

August 29th marked the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Last year at this time we at Synergy and people around the country were involved in major relief efforts and in discussions about the government response, the role of racism and many other important issues. Here are several links to articles of interest on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

This is the beginning of our first humanities blog (also our first blog of any type). Many thanks to Tiffany for introducing us to blogging. We’re learning as we go, so here we go for 2006. Set those alarm clocks!

Elena and Tammy